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The ''Lucky Starr'' series was written explicitly with the purpose of teaching young people facts about the solar system, which means that it suffers from [[Science Marches On]] perhaps more than the rest of Asimov's work--the title ''Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus'' should be a clue as to how inaccurate it sometimes gets. Nevertheless, the books are still very enjoyable as science-fiction adventures.

 

 

The first books were also marketed to Hollywood, as the basis for a TV series, which is why Asimov went with the pseudonym. He had seen how Hollywood tended to butcher the works of other SF writers, and wanted to be able to disassociate himself from any resulting series, if he had to. After the TV idea fell through, he started added elements to the later books that clearly labelled him as the author (such as three-laws robots with positronic brains.)

* [[Future Slang]]: Sands of Mars! Great Galaxy! Space!

* [[Laser Blade]]: [[Trope Maker]], surprisingly enough.

* [[Go to Alias]]: Lucky uses "William Williams".

* [[Government Agency of Fiction]]: The Council of Science